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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Friday, July 01, 2005
For the Fourth
James Heintze at American University (in Washington, DC) has compiled a database of Fourth of July celebrations. It's a database of historical celebrations of the Fourth from the very beginning of the American republic to the present (including President George W. Bush's last four 4th speeches in various cities across the U.S. and the famous speech given by Frederick S. Douglass in Rochester, NY, July 5 1952, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?).
It's a nice way to review what this holiday has meant to Americans over the years. On another note, the National Council of Churches has issued a statement expressing their feelings for this Fourth of July: A Call to Speak Out asks for "peace and justice in Iraq" and says:
...The time has come to say: - NO to leaders who have sent many honorable sons and daughters to fight a dishonorable war; - NO to the violence that has cost over seventeen hundred American lives, left thousands grievously injured, and killed untold numbers of Iraqis whose deaths we are unwilling to acknowledge or count; - NO to the abuse of prisoners that has shamed our nation and damaged our reputation throughout the world; - NO to the price tag for this war that has rendered our federal budget incapable of adequately caring for the poorest of our own citizens; and, - NO to theologies that demonize other nations and religions while arrogantly claiming righteousness for ourselves as if we share no complicity in human evil. " posted by liz at 11:37 AM 
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